[Jay Redhawk]

Your assessment of Lincoln and the Republicans is correct. My preference is that a new conservative based party, maybe started with help from Mark Levin and Sarah Palin, come into being. I would love to join a truly conservative, states rights oriented party that had no stench of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and the other progressives.

[Carry_Okie]

Your assessment of Lincoln and the Republicans is correct.

It didn't start with Lincoln; it goes all the way back to Hamilton.

My preference is that a new conservative based party, maybe started with help from Mark Levin and Sarah Palin, come into being.

Well, the conservatives took over the Republican Party once with Reagan, but never did fix the Party machinery down to its base. The country club rules virtually every local central committee. THAT is where battles are won and lost. I think Ken Blackwell has it right.